Orange River White-eye (Gariepglasogie)

Scientific name: Zosterops pallidus

There are seven subspecies of Cape White-eyes. The nominate western subspecies is now split as the Orange River White-eye (Zosterops pallidus), leaving the eastern races as Cape White-eye (Z. capensis).
The Orange River White-eye prefers drier, more open woodland than the eastern forms, and the ranges of the two populations do not overlap. They are both endemic to South Africa.
They have rounded wings, strong legs, and a conspicuous ring of white feathers round the eyes. The upperparts plumage is green, and the throat and vent are bright yellow. The Orange River White-eye has a pale yellow central belly with peach coloured flanks, whereas the Cape subspecies has a grey breast and belly. However, the subspecies from Mpumalanga has a green-washed breast and belly.

Crested Barbet (Kuifkophoutkapper)

Scientific name: Trachyphonus vaillantii

The Crested Barbet is common in South Africa, especially from the Free State to the Limpopo Province. It is found in forests, savannah, suburban gardens, woodland thickets and watercourses
This small bird has a speckled yellow and red face with a small black crest. The  belly is yellow with red speckles, wings are black with white specks and it has a broad black band on its neck. Yellow head and body with black and white feathers, red markings on end of body.
The crested barbet feeds on insects, other birds' eggs and fruits and sometimes mice.

Dusky Sunbird Namakwasuikerbekkie

Scientific name: Cinnyris fuscus

Near-endemic to southern Africa, occurring from central Angola to Namibia and the western half of South Africa, marginally extending into south-western Botswana. It generally prefers drainage line woodland in succulent and Nama Karoo, semi-arid coastal plains with sand dunes, scrub along rivers and streams and rocky inselbergs with adequate cover, sometimes moving into gardens.
The breeding male has blackish-brownhead with faint purple-blue iridescence, upperparts dark brown with blue, purple.
It mainly eats nectar supplemented with arthropods, hawking insects aerially and gleaning prey from foliage and spider webs.

African pied wagtail (Bontkwikkie)

Scientific name: Motacilla aguimp

Occurs across much of sub-Saharan Africa, from Senegal to Sudan south to southern Africa. Here it is fairly common in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, eastern and north-western South Africa and northern Namibia, while more scarce in Botswana and the interior of South Africa.
  It generally prefers wide rivers and other water bodies with sandy banks or scattered boulders, but it may also occupy rocky coastlines. It is also common in man-made habitats, such as parks, playing fields, golf courses, suburban gardens and sewage works.
A striking black and white wagtail with black upperparts contrasting with white underparts, a white supercilium and a white patch in the folded wing.
It mainly eats insects, especially flies but also other invertebrates, grass seeds, tadpoles, small fish and scraps of human food.

Verraux's eagle, Black eagle (Witkruisarend)

Scientific name: Aquila verreauxii

Verreaux's eagle is a very large eagle. It measures 75 to 96 cm (30 to 38 in) long from the bill to the tip of the tail, making it the sixth longest eagle in the world. The average weight is approximately 4.19 kg (9.2 lb). Other than the female’s slight size advantage, adult males and females are physically indistinguishable from each other. Adult Verreaux's eagles are mostly jet-black in color. The yellow coloration of the cere (the bill is gun-metal grey), eye-ring and “eye-brows”, all stand out in contrast to the black plumage. Even more prominent on flying birds when seen from above is the white on the back, rump and upper-tail coverts and part of the scapulars, which forms a V-shaped patch, although this feature is partially obscured in perched birds. uvenile and immature plumages differ markedly from the plumage of adults. They are overall a dark brown color. Immatures have a strongly contrasting golden crown and a rufous or ginger nape and mantle. They have small white streaks on the forehead and black on their cheeks. The throat is dark streaked, the lower throat is pale brown and the upper-chest is brown. The rest of the underside is brown but for a blackish-blotched rufous to cream-colored abdomen and lightly marked creamy thighs and legs.
In southern Africa, it is locally fairly common in Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa, marginally extending into eastern Botswana and western Mozambique. It generally prefers mountains and other rocky habitats with cliffs.
It mainly eats mammals, especially rock hyraxes, doing most of its hunting from a perch, from which it descends to pluck prey from the ground. It often hunts in pairs, so that one bird can flush prey by skimming the rockface, while the other follows to strike; they share the meat afterwards. It tends to hunt rock hyraxes in the early morning and evening, when they take up exposed positions to warm up; it sometimes surprises the hyraxes to such an extent that they fall down the rockface to their deaths.